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Ermin Abazi, a renowned expert in the field of cybersecurity, recently addressed a gathering of professionals, shedding light on the importance of identifying and securing digital vulnerabilities. Abazi emphasized that the increasing reliance on digital technologies has exposed individuals and organizations to new risks. He termed these vulnerabilities as “digital Achilles’ heels,” highlighting their potential to compromise sensitive information and disrupt business operations. According to Abazi, the most common digital Achilles’ heels include unsecured passwords, outdated software,[…]

The UK Public Accounts Committee’s recent report has sent a clear and urgent message: cyber threats are evolving faster than defenses can keep up. The digital infrastructure underpinning our critical infrastructure is increasingly exposed, not only due to external threats but also because of internal gaps in strategy, capability, and legacy system management. Replacing outdated technology may be part of the solution, but it’s far from the full picture. We need a fundamental shift in mindset, toward[…]

The US Department of Justice has announced that it has taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which involve using undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program and steal data and cryptocurrency. As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort, the government announced the arrest and indictment of US national Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, who allegedly ran a years-long fraud scheme from New Jersey to sneak remote[…]

AMI MegaRAC is a widely used firmware package employed in servers from prominent manufacturers such as AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, Supermicro, and Qualcomm. A critical vulnerability, carrying a severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10, has been discovered in this firmware package. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-54085, is being actively exploited by hackers. The vulnerability resides in the baseboard management controllers (BMCs) of server[…]